Understood Quotes

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Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring… — Alexis Carrel
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that. — Francis Lockier
A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the… — Susanne K Langer
America has always understood this principle of the economy - that everyone can benefit when everyone competes. — Julia Gillard
The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at… — Chelsea Clinton
It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood. — Domenico Dolce
It seemed glamorous when I used to go into work and get to be on a trading floor or see how the business worked a… — Erin Duffy
The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion. — Kevin Rudd
I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew… — Ed Koch
When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the… — Chuck Hagel
After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a… — Paul Henderson
When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on… — will.i.am
Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight… — Christina Romer
A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures by changing growth… — Kenneth R. Miller
I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All… — Maria Semple
As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much… — Mike Bouchard
In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time… — John Burdett
As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society. — Laura Esquivel
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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